Hi,  Mostly I find that each of my memory cards has photos from more than one subject area.  A few weeks often elapse between each shoot.  So when I get around to downloading the photos I don't remember what subject I shot on which day.  What I normally do is to plug in my card reader and view the thumbnails in Windows Explorer.  I then manually copy, for example, the Alaska photos to a previously created folder called "2009 Alaska" and the Seattle photos to "2009 Seattle", using right-mouse button/drag/drop/copy.  Because some of the Seattle photos were taken before the Alaska trip and others were taken following the trip I rely on the visual cue of the thumbnails to permit me to select the correct images to go into their corresponding folder.  I've looked at the video, read the user guide and posts on the forum and like what I see.  However, what I am not sure about is whether FlashPipe is able to help me sort the wood from the trees before the images are imported to specific folders?

Grateful for any advice.  Thanks and Regards:

Malcolm 

I think the best help that FlashPipe can give for you is the re-name feature. Use this to incorporate the date in the file name. I use yyy-mm-dd Camera image number and that makes it possible to easily see the image date and thus sort to new folders on that basis. I don't have to see the thumbnail to do that.
However, I do use Qimage, like Fred suggested, to copy to new folders because the create new folder and move can be done at the same time.
I guess what you are really asking is to make folders according to GPS location data, not sure if anyone does that yet  
Terry

I think in a case like this, the first step in downloading images should always be to get them from the flash card and organize them by something like shot date.  With the latest version, you can move images into folders based on the date shot and then you can just click on each folder after the transfer is done (using Windows Explorer if you wish) and look at a few images in that folder.  You should quickly be able to determine that the 2009-09-01 folder contains Seattle photos just by looking at an image or two.  You can then click on 2009-09-01 and change it to Seattle-2009-09-01 in Explorer.  Then just repeat for the other folders if you like.

Mike

I think most people use image management software post download for such a task but I do recognize that selective downloading would be a nice feature so it is on the list for a future version.

Mike

The other use I could see for the thumbnail views and selective downloading  would help my flow. I move photos into a directory based on the Month and year taken (thanks for the change in 112). Typically I then open Qimage and look at thumbnails to auto-rename the newly transferred photos in groups based on the occasion.  It would be great to do the move and auto-rename in one step, but many times I have pictures from multiple occasions on the same card so I cannot use the rename in Flashpipe since it has just one choice and without seeing thumbnails I do not always remember the occasion based on date.  Being able to look at thumbnails and to selectively pick photos for rename and move would make it possible for me to do both operations within Flashpipe.
Thanks,
Dave